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Greetings Bloggies.

So I was informed that I was not sharing the products of my cooking adventures with people that are not here.
So as a biproxi alternative to feeding all of my 5 loyal readers at one I will blog about food. The last post concerned the use of
the roasting pan and iron. Both of which have been used since. This post covers my adventures with a rolling pin. I had actually gotten my self one before christmas but never used it. It was a So So one made of steel.

The extra new one is Danish Maple. Its longer and heavier then the steel one. With that in my grasp it was time to revisit pizza.
My last and nearly first effort was not bad. But it was lumpy and uneven. Tonights batch which is really yesterdays was perfect.
I made this batch of pizza when the sauce I made thursday or so failed to be tasty for pasta due to a lack of non paste tomato products. That made it the perfect pizza sauce.

To night and this weeks supply of left overs used the last of that sauce combined with olives and read pepers and chicken fried in a little of the sauce and some smokey hot sauce. I think my post title says the rest.
Thankfully I have enough dough in the freezer to roughly double it.

Oh The Games We Play

Northern Lights Entertainment report.

This will be a departure from the traditional entertainment report for I will not be talking about media I have brought with me to work for my enjoyment. This rotation I tried to keep the media load light in the overly optimistic view that if I have less to distract me I will do more writing. That is failing so far as I picked up on my last day in town a new tech toy, the
iPod touch. It is more hand held computer then iPod, and if itunes would ever let me down load the new software update it would be even more of one.

Tech toys while fun and distracting are not my focus. Rather it is what was done on my time off. First the short summery: Some last minuet shopping in Kelowna a few days before Christmas, Madness. A good Friday night drunk to shut down from that madness, coffee with some of the old K town crowd. Kelowna was followed with a trip to Nakusp, which was framed with interesting drives over the mountains. Thankfully I have Serenity, which handled fine even at Deep Creak proving that Subaru are Suberb (Blame Aimee for that one).




Christmas was in Nakusp where I had to cut down a tree on Christmas Eve day because on one else in the family was in the mood for one. In a break with tradition the better part of the gifts under the tree were from me. All of which went over well, including and much to my surprise, socks. Which were accepted with all the appearance of joy. The latest news is that the socks are still being worn and have aided in the distracting of board mind.

The last gift was delivered late, on the 4th of the New Year unwrapped and unexpected. The package, the Settlers of Catan it is board game the goal of which is to build your civilization. Now civilization-building games are not new to me but tabletop forms are. This is a game type I have always played on a computer.



Catan proved to by addictive, which is ultimately why I picked it up I was already addicted from Christine's introduction over Christmas time and I know it would go over well with Risk playing crew in Penticton. I had underestimated the appeal. The first night there we played four games almost non-stop till nearly 2am. The second night was not as long but almost worse as we had started to add the expansion packs. By the end of the weekend our maps had grown to huge proportions and the game play was fast and chaotic. At times it felt more time was being spent setting up the map then playing it. The beauty of the Catan franchise is that every one is active even if it is not your turn you are still involved as trade between players can happen at nearly any time, you can improve you out come next turn with a good trade.


Oh the Games We Play.
It was my intent to deliver a fun present instead I spawned an addict, I am sorry, but I will join a game the next time I am in those parts.

So this year I learned trust the gut, give gifts that feel right even if they are a little silly and gaming is good for your mental health.